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Tag Archives: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Dead Blogging Leonard Lauder At Boston’s MFA
Last night Leonard Lauder – cosmetic executive, philanthropist, collector – came to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to to lecture about the collection of more than 100,000 postcards he’s donated to the MFA. And it was very fine. Lauder, a … Continue reading
The Boston MFA’s African-American Artwork Haul
As the hardworking staff has reported (EXCLUSIVE!) on several occasions, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has sold off almost 150 African-American artworks for reasons that are, well, sort of vague. From a previous post: [A]n MFA spokeswoman graciously informed us … Continue reading
Own A Piece Of Boston’s MFA
This coming Thursday Swann Galleries in New York is auctioning off a bundle of African-American artworks currently owned by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, as the hardworking staff has previously noted. Back then an MFA spokeswoman graciously informed us that … Continue reading
Update: The Boston MFA’s African-American Artwork Sale
The hardworking staff got its chronology bollixed up in this post about the MFA, much to our chagrin and partly because of this misleading format on ArtDaily.org: It turns out that story is really from several years ago (although … Continue reading
Boston’s MFA Acquires Three New African-American Artworks, Sells More Than A Dozen Others
The MFA buyeth, and the the MFA selleth away. From ArtDaily.org: MFA Boston Acquires Three Paintings By 20th Century African-American Artists BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), recently acquired three paintings by leading African-American artists of the … Continue reading
Boston’s MFA: Museum Of Fine(anced) Arts
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has some new blockbuster mojo with its Mario Testino: In Your Face exhibit, a natural heir to its Herb Ritts and Ralph Lauren hoedowns. But something else is a natural heir: The MFA’s increasing reliance … Continue reading
New York Times Gives Blogosphere Props
For all the ripping off of blogs the mainstream media does (see Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub takedown of the Boston Globe last week), sometimes the MSM actually does the right thing. Exhibit A: Saturday’s New York Times item about the … Continue reading
